Have you Wondered Why Nigerian Big Men Have No Regards for Your Time?

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionHave you Wondered Why Nigerian Big Men Have No Regards for Your Time?

PilotnewsFebruary 19, 2021

He grants the appointments but dehumanizes the guests who are left without a word. Still, they wait. Their patience never exhausted! ―Ebuka Onyekwelu A typical successful Nigerian in business, politics, religious leadership and other spheres of influence have not to single regard for the time of people they ask to meet at home or in the office on appointment. This is one of the few areas where Nigerian elites irrespective of educational background, religious beliefs...

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Federal and State Governments Vouch to Protect all Non-indigenous Communities

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNigeriaFederal and State Governments Vouch to Protect all Non-indigenous Communities

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 19, 2021

Lingering insecurity in some parts of the country, the National Economic Council after a critical review of the security situation in the country, under the chairmanship of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN resolved to made effort towards the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of all perpetrators of crime in the country while both the States and Federal governments would ensure the full protection of all Nigerians wherever they reside. According to the resolution of the Council,...

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Fani-Kayode Meets Sunday Igboho, Join Calls for Licensed Guns for Nigerians

Crime & SecurityNational SecurityNewsNigeriaFani-Kayode Meets Sunday Igboho, Join Calls for Licensed Guns for Nigerians

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 19, 2021

Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined the calls for Nigerians to be licensed to carry sophisticated arms like AK-47 if Fulani herdsmen are permitted to secure themselves with the same type of weapon. The former Minister said this on Thursday when he visited Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, known as Sunday Igboho, at his residence in Ibadan. Fani-Kayode said the best way to tackle the insecurity facing the nation was for the...

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British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing Joins #BeLikeNgoziChallenge

NewsNigeriaUnited NationsWorld NewsBritish High Commissioner, Catriona Laing Joins #BeLikeNgoziChallenge

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)February 18, 2021

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, on Wednesday, joined the #BeLikeNgoziChallenge, a social media challenge which has been trending online since the beginning of the week. The challenge has attracted has attracted great attention recently with the historic emergence of Nigeria’s pride, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization.     Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian development economist, is known for her African print Ankara wears and peculiar headgear usually tilted...

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Kidnapping and Ransom Payments in Nigeria

NewsNigeriaOpinionKidnapping and Ransom Payments in Nigeria

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

by John Campbell On February 17, a gang of “gunmen” kidnapped more than forty students, teachers, and administrators from a secondary school in Niger State. At least one student was killed. Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has appealed for assistance from President Muhammadu Buhari, who has ordered all four service chiefs to go to Niger State to coordinate rescue operations. In December, “bandits” kidnapped some three hundred schoolboys from a school in Kankara, located in Katsina State. There have been several other mass kidnappings,...

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Insecurity: Northern Governors Vows to Protect Lives and Properties

NewsNigeriaInsecurity: Northern Governors Vows to Protect Lives and Properties

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 18, 2021

Governor Nasir Ahmed El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State restated that Governors of the Northern states would protect the lives and properties of everyone living in their areas of jurisdiction no matter where he comes from. The Governor disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in the Government House Yola shortly after condoling with Governor Umaru Fintiri over the recent death of some prominent sons and daughters of Adamawa. He called on their colleagues especially in the...

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Kidnapping: Niger State Government Shuts Down Boarding Schools in Four LGAs

LocalNewsNigeriaKidnapping: Niger State Government Shuts Down Boarding Schools in Four LGAs

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

The Niger state government has shut down all boarding schools in four local government areas (LGAs). The affected LGAs are Rafi, Munya, Mariga and Shiroro. The closure of the schools follows the abduction of school children at the Government Science College (GSC), Kagara in the early hours of Wednesday. Governor Sani Bello of the state gave the order at a press conference, called for clam from parents and relatives of the abducted schoolchildren. He called...

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No Plans to Increase Petrol Price -NNPC Assures Organised Labour, Others

BusinessLabourNewsNigeriaNo Plans to Increase Petrol Price -NNPC Assures Organised Labour, Others

PilotnewsFebruary 18, 2021

ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation  (NNPC) has assured Organised labour and Nigerians that there will be no increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as Petrol in the month of February. The corporation gave the assurance in a statement signed by its spokesman Dr Kennie Obateru in Abuja, on Thursday. “In spite of the rise in the price of crude oil in the international market, NNPC has ruled out...

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO

EssayWorldWorld NewsNgozi Okonjo-Iweala: A Well-Qualified New Leader for the WTO

PilotnewsFebruary 17, 2021

by John Campbell Culled from The Council on Foreign Relations When Robert Azevedo stepped down last year from the post of director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the trade body’s top leadership position, former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala quickly became the universal favorite to land the job—except for among members of the Trump administration. Because the WTO operates on the basis of consensus, the Trump administration’s opposition effectively vetoed her in favor of the current South Korean Trade...

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Buhari Dispatches Search Party as Gunmen Abduct 27 students; kill one in North-Central

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaBuhari Dispatches Search Party as Gunmen Abduct 27 students; kill one in North-Central

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 17, 2021

Gunmen have killed a student and abducted 27 others in a night-time raid on their boarding school at Government Science Secondary School, Kagara Niger state in the North-central Nigeria. Niger state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello who confirmed the incident said three members of staff and 12 of their relatives were also abducted. The Principal of the school Danasabe Ubaidu, said about 600 boys were asleep in their dormitories when the school during the raid. Meanwhile, President Muhammadu...

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